I'm glad to see that my kids aren't the only ones who manage to get whatever is in their hands onto our roof. We have a tree conveniently located near our roof. I think my boys throw things on our roof just so they have an excuse to do some roof stomping! Thank goodness it isn't a tall roof.

Is that ice on the roof or is that just how the roofing material looks? Eek! Are you STILL getting snow? When does it ever stop snowing there? June? August??? I'll send some of our Texas weather to you... but be careful... it can change in an instant!

BTW... love the ticker showing how many days left until the book release. Can't wait!!! WOooHOo!

I would just LOVE to know what was going through your kids minds in the moments prior to these items landing on your roof. Were they playing keep-away from a younger sibling? Practicing with a waterballoon slingshot? Doing some MythBuster's-esque jet-propulsion experiments using 2 Liter soda bottles and these were their crash test dummies? Or (God forbid) experimenting with huge numbers of helium balloons trying to see how many it would take to lift them off the ground?...

OK...so this is really a bit long for a comment...but it made me remember when I was working at an old-folks home and one of my ladies came to me and said there was a 'little problem.' She wouldn't say what. Turns out she was out on her patio and noticed a pair of undies on the roof below her porch. The lady above her had been drying her laundry on her porch and had wondered what happened to the errant undies. I had to fish them off with a broom!

Not sure how sad this is but that doll with the purple hair is from McD's and it is from the Strawberry Shortcake group of toys. Thankfully I do not know her name. And yes, we have too many McD's toys, that one included!

How is your son's school project going? Wasn't it due this month? Don't remember ever working on anything so neat back when I was that age. How cool for him! What was it all about anyway? What was he doing with all the post cards?

Hi Dawn,Did you remember to check the gutters? I'm sure that's where the rest of the toys are hiding. I know I have a few darts in mine.Also, I wanted you to know that you inspired me to start my own blog. You didn't inspire me enough to have 6 kids. I have 2 boys, well 3 if you count my husband and I changed my name to Dawn... Ok, so my parents may have picked that name. Anyway, the point is that I don't know how to log into Blogger without going to your blog and then clicking the "sign in" at the top. Hope you don't mine being my entrance into blogland!www.momscookiejar.blogspot.com

You need a taller house. This would force the children to use physics to ensure they still got stuff on the roof.Alternatively, you could get one of those chalet style roofs (rooves?), steel and steep to prevent snow -and toys- from sticking. Annette in BC

Okay so my 7 year old daughter said "What is that? It that the blog you're always looking at?" They are going to have to start a 12 step program for your blog...nice roof collection btw...and I don't buy the story about the fake turtle...the blurry pic is just a little too convenient...

Mr. Schmitty is afraid of heights. And he won't let me up on our room. I guess because he's afraid of heights and even seeing me up there will make him weak in the knees. God and the birds only know what I've got up there.

A frisbee I can understand but the rest ?????Do you have a single-storey house?My son and his friends were good at getting those pocket-money polystyrene aeroplanes on the roof, but we just waited for a good wind to bring them down again!

SHHH...Don't tell my kids, but I used to DANCE on my roof!Our family room was HUGE and only one storey, so I could climb right out my bedroom window and do my thing. Our front porch roof was where we would sit to watch sunsets...my parents made the mistake of teaching us how to get out "in case of fire" and then not setting limits...Dad used to get worried calls from the neighbors...NO ONE EVER fell off.Hey, stop by my blog if you "have time"! Blessings & Peace, EJT

Seems like a standard roof of anyone who either has kids or lives next door to kids. My personal favourite is the tennis balls that end up in the gutter then stick in the down pipe which you discover the next time there is a down pour and the water can't get down the pipe so it goes over the edge

As of right now we have 2 sippy cups, 1 bouncy ball, and I just discovered this afternoon- a hairbrush. Of course, I have a helpful 4-year-old who loves to climb on the roof to get stuff down. I think he has a future career in construction...

I'm glad I'm not the only one with a roof like that. They get it from their dad who decorated up there with Santa and all one year, a huge flag hanging off it another year. I have had to get kids down who got stuck on the shed roof trying to get stuff down and my husband had to go to the school one day to get my son's shoe off the roof of the school so he'd have it to wear the next day.

I am cracking up over here. We have one of those squeaky toys up on ours.. it's the shape of an aligator.

Imagine how funny I found it when one of our neighbors was beyond convinced that it was a dead squirrel ;). I just let him go on thinking that. I'm sure that he eventually figured out that the "squirrel" never decomposed.

There are only toys on my porch roof. At least, that is the only roof we get them off of. If there are any on the upper roof, they can stay there until we get our metal roof repainted next year. I'm sure the painters will throw them back down to get them out of their way.